Health Tips : Muscle soreness and weightlifting
By Winston Salem in : Fitness Tips // Aug 27 2010
0Muscle soreness can happen to any of us at any time. It normally always happens to individuals who are just starting an exercise program, but can also happen to trained exercise enthusiasts who overload excessively, or who change from one activity to another, or work the same set of muscles in a new and different [...]
Continue ReadingHealth Tips : Knee stretches
By Winston Salem in : Fitness Tips // Aug 26 2010
0Knees are extremelycomplex joints. They are made up of many ligaments, tendons, and cartilage that cushion and connect bones and muscles of the upper and lower legs. Our knees may become sore or injured from overuse, exercise, or simply as a result of daily wear and tear. Strengthening and stretching supporting structures and musculature will [...]
Continue ReadingHealth Tips : Nausea from weightlifting
By Winston Salem in : Fitness Tips // Aug 25 2010
0All lifters could probably use a few refreshers as it’s easy to get into a routine without thinking about those basics. Are you giving yourself sufficient time to rest between sets? Are you lifting a difficult, but manageable amount of weight? These could be important factors in assisting keep your lifting sessions balanced. You mention [...]
Continue ReadingHealth Tips : Do bodybuilders and other weightlifters need more protein?
By Winston Salem in : Fitness Tips // Aug 24 2010
0Protein isn’t necessarily the most important food source for muscle building. Actually, when bodybuilding, your primary consideration ought to be taking in adequate energy, or enough calories. Research shows that consuming an additional 2270 to 3630 calories a week (approximately 500 extra calories a day), along with appropriate weight training, will result in one pound [...]
Continue ReadingHealth Tips : Too young to weight lift?
By Winston Salem in : Fitness Tips // Aug 23 2010
0Resistance training, resistance training, and resistance training all relate to the use of free weights and/or weight machines to increase muscular strength and muscular endurance. Weight and power lifting involve the use of free weights (usually heavier than those used in weight training). Some of the major lifts engaged in during weight and power lifting [...]
Continue ReadingHealth Tips : What's a healthy weightlifting schedule?
By Winston Salem in : Fitness Tips // Aug 22 2010
0Weight training is an important component of fitness. As in any exercise program, rest is an essential factor. It is important to leave a day between exercising a specific body part or muscle in order to reap the advantages of your hard work. That’s because weightlifting can cause micro-tears in the muscle fiber(s) that temporarily [...]
Continue ReadingHealth Tips : Exercising with bowlegs
By Winston Salem in : Fitness Tips // Aug 21 2010
0The most important thing to consider is that there’s been a shift in mentality on exercise. the days of “no pain, no gain” are long past. Any type of activity that causes pain shouldn’t be continued; fortunately there are a number of methods for exercising your thighs – peruse on. The exercises that you describe [...]
Continue ReadingHealth Tips : How can I develop muscle symmetry?
By Winston Salem in : Fitness Tips // Aug 20 2010
0Nearly all individuals have one part of the right arm or leg one quarter of an inch to over one inch larger or smaller than their left in circumference. and often even feet are .-a-size different from one another. That said, there are ways of making your legs more similar in size, even when the [...]
Continue ReadingHealth Tips : Breathing patterns while working out
By Winston Salem in : Fitness Tips // Aug 19 2010
0How has this for a breath of fresh air – there’s no right or wrong pattern to breathing while working out. Although you might often hear people say it is best to exhale during exertion (or as you wrote, contraction) and inhale during relaxation, the most important part is to make sure you are breathing [...]
Continue ReadingHealth Tips : Shin pains from walking?
By Winston Salem in : Fitness Tips // Aug 18 2010
0Walking on pavement increases the stress on your joints and connective tissue. Shin splints are an inflammation of the muscle and/or tendons of the lower leg caused by repetitive walking or running on a hard surface. The signs are pain on the inner side of the shinbone (tibia) in the front part of the leg. [...]
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